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The first diagrammatic map of London's rapid transit network was designed by Harry Beck in 1931. [1] [2] He was a London Underground employee who realised that because the railway ran mostly underground, the physical locations of the stations were largely irrelevant to the traveller wanting to know how to get from one station to another; only the topology of the route mattered.
English: *Route map of London Underground, London Overground, Docklands Light Railway and Elizabeth line , including most green-lighted proposals. Out of station interchanges (OSIs) refer to TfL official website and the independent website Oyster and National Rail. Check the pages for details on distance and allotted transfer time of each pair ...
The current standard Tube map shows the Docklands Light Railway, London Overground, IFS Cloud Cable Car, London Tramlink and the London Underground; [273] a more detailed map covering a larger area, published by National Rail and Transport for London, includes suburban railway services. [203] The tube map came second in a BBC and London ...
The railway infrastructure of the London Underground includes 11 lines, with 272 stations.There are two types of line on the London Underground: services that run on the sub-surface network just below the surface using larger trains, and the deep-level tube lines, that are mostly self-contained and use smaller trains.
Transport for London (TfL) has released a new Tube map with the Elizabeth line included for the first time. The new east-west railway has been added to the map ahead of its opening on May 24.
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An unofficial topological tube map of the London Underground system. Also included are the London Overground, Docklands Light Railway, the Tramlink and Elizabeth line systems for integration purposes. The London Underground is a metro system in the United Kingdom that serves Greater London and the home counties of Buckinghamshire, Essex and ...
The first tube railway, the City and South London Railway, opened in 1890 with electric locomotives hauling carriages. [34]: 15 In 1898, the Waterloo and City Railway opened to the public using electric multiple units. Each four-car train had two trailers and two motor-cars with two 60 hp (45 kW) motors that could be directly controlled from ...